Melvin Warner is former associate principal clarinet of the Saint Louis Symphony and is clarinet and chamber music professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University. This compact disc features some of the most exciting music ever composed for the clarinet. Melvin Warner’s original release on LP was called “a real find, one of the finest clarinet recordings I have yet to hear” by Edward Tatnall Canby writing in Audio Magazine.

“In Smith’s and Martino’s unaccompanied pieces, Warner is an artist … in his element – fluid, stylish, and in complete command of the music’s considerable technical difficulties, including frequent, large shifts in register.” Fanfare Magazine